[ti:Y? (Explicit)] [ar:The Pharcyde] [al:Labcabincalifornia] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.31]Y? (Explicit) - The Pharcyde [00:00.94]Composed by:Trevant Har [00:01.92]Why is that? [00:04.40]Why is that? [00:07.00]Why is that? [00:09.23]Tell me why be like that it just be like that? [00:12.42]Why it's gotta be like that? [00:14.37]Tell me why be like that it just be like that? [00:17.74]Why it's gotta be like that? [00:19.69]Tell me why be like that it just be like that? [00:22.94]Why it's gotta be like that? [00:24.91]Be like that [00:25.55]Why it's gotta be like that? [00:27.02]It just be like that [00:28.16]Why it's gotta be like that? [00:29.41]Why it's gotta be like that? [00:30.97]I wasn't sleepin' I was creepin' slidin' hidin' [00:33.97]I would lock the door behind me roll up a fat Thai [00:36.14]And thinking mentally sinking presently bringing [00:38.68]Two decades and a half makin' a path for mine to follow [00:41.38]The world is hollow yet it's full of crap prepare to gamble [00:43.97]I give you a handful of chips and tips of what's to come [00:45.89]I cried a ton of tears drunk a ton of beers [00:47.84]It's fun at first but learn to persevere [00:49.44]Throughout the years kept my ears open eyes scoping [00:51.84]Mouth locked don't rock the boat if you can't swim [00:54.76]Nobody may not be there with the limb to lend [00:56.98]This is the end still I can't explain the fact [01:00.03]Why in the **** **** gotta be [01:01.41]Tell me why be like that it just be like that [01:05.30]Baby tell me why it's gotta be like that [01:07.42]Know why I said it hear me clear and know it's so severe [01:10.16]And dreaded that they need to be beheaded [01:12.28]Why I'm readily steadily stimulating and mutilating all sloppily copied [01:18.00]Imitations 'cause they irritating [01:19.80]So I'm intimidating them over the snare with simply a stare [01:23.02]Bringing them turbulent terror and [01:24.52]They know this 'cause they can feel it [01:25.96]He knew that it was mine still the sucker tried to steal it [01:28.56]So I had to reveal it through proving that I [01:30.92]Am astonishing and fly and by just winking my eye [01:33.60]In a flash I flush out the face laying low key [01:36.65]Trained eyes locate to focus on the phony [01:39.10]Mister sometime-y homie why he act like that? [01:41.34]I thought he had my back I thought he had our backs [01:43.87]But it was him who I should have never trusted [01:46.13]Or not at least until he got his attitude adjusted [01:49.09]Or mouth busted for acting all dusted [01:51.43]But bust this now when I'm out I seek and sort out the whole scene [01:54.63]For all sinister types sneak that scheme [01:57.26]They come into my face I send them tight men home [01:59.85]When they be suffering from the double agent syndrome [02:02.61]Why? [02:03.28]Why it gotta [02:03.86]Tell me why be like that it just be like that [02:07.76]Baby tell me why it's gotta [02:09.11]Tell me why be like that it just be like that [02:12.97]Baby tell me why it's gotta be like that [02:15.30]Uh [02:15.78]Sometimes this world means everything to me [02:18.08]The insight is lovely through these eyes I see [02:20.66]And sometimes in my mind all I wanna do is cry [02:23.16]Why? [02:23.41]Highly upset but nothing drops from my eye [02:25.71]Eye [02:26.05]Thoughts run out my skin 'cause I'm pissed from within [02:28.18]Uh-huh [02:28.50]I see a situation now and all I do is grin [02:31.27]People think I'm high but I'm mentally traveling [02:33.78]Aging in short times 'cause life's unraveling [02:36.32]While I'm straddling walls of this ******* mic [02:38.93]I'd hate to be a pilot crashing in the flight [02:41.63]People need to know about this thing called life [02:43.96]'Cause if you see the light then life's alright [02:46.41]So can you [02:46.95]Be like that it just be like that [02:49.42]Baby tell me why it's gotta be like that [02:51.56]So what [02:52.07]Be like that it just be like that [02:54.69]Baby tell me why it's gotta be like that [02:56.85]I jumped inside the Jeep as I embark on my dark mission [03:00.12]Popped in my freestyle tapes start reminiscing [03:02.19]'Bout my little homie who was raised in Wyoming [03:04.83]Wanted to be famous so he came to Californey [03:07.36]On the microphony was super bad and what not [03:09.92]But he was the kind of fella to follow fads that was hot [03:12.53]He became so fascinated with that gang-related flavor [03:15.14]That he modificated rearranged his behavior [03:18.05]He hooked up quick with the influential slang [03:20.75]Gangsta strolls cornrolls the whole shebang [03:23.38]Bragging and boasting boasting and bragging [03:25.58]How he mostly be hanging with baby G's I was bagging [03:28.79]Like why you trying to hoo-ride up on the bandwagon? [03:31.40]Hoping to hit him in the head but he steady sagging [03:33.99]Like he a hog creeping through the smog [03:36.37]Smoking on some indo sipping on a cup of O-Dog [03:39.17]Like most who come to this West Coast society [03:41.63]Try to be because they think it's fly to be a menace [03:44.36]So what a relic way to end this [03:46.25]Got rolled up when he was strolling on a Sunday up in Venice [03:49.42]Niggas never listen they gotta learn their lesson [03:51.87]The hard way I'm guessing yes indeed-y [03:54.41]As I hit the B and make a right on Weston [03:57.32]Pops in my head the proverbial question [03:59.57]Why it [03:59.86]Be like that it just be like that? [04:02.38]Baby tell me why it's gotta [04:03.75]Tell me why be like that it just be like that? [04:07.14]It's gotta be like that [04:08.98]Tell me why be like that it just be like that? [04:12.83]Baby tell me why it's gotta [04:14.16]Tell me why be like that it just be like that? [04:18.02]Baby tell me why it's gotta [04:19.33]Tell me why be like that it just be like that? [04:22.71]Why it's gotta be like that? [04:24.59]Tell me why be like that it just be like that? [04:27.85]Why it's gotta be like that? [04:29.79]Tell me why? [04:33.06]Why it's gotta be like that? [04:35.59]Why it's gotta be like that? [04:38.22]Why it's gotta be like that? [04:40.23]Tell me why?